design summit - community and ecosystem - john mark walker

ManageIQ Community VisionJohn Mark Walker

Agenda● Current State

– Development/Code

– Partners & Ecosystem

– Web site

● Roadmap– Cloud Depot

Innovation -> Management

New Technology

Adoption

ProliferationChaos

Control

Why Open Source?● Revenge of the Customer

ProprietaryVendor

Customer

OSS Vendor Customer

Open Source Innovation● A managed ecosystem

● Guided by rapid, iterative customer feedback

● May not actually be the fastest way to develop

● But it is the most responsive to customers' needs

The Community Vision

Why ManageIQ is Open Source● It's Red Hat DNA

● First to market with Open Source cloud management

● Customer demand

● Innovation in an open-source model more responsive to customers

● Who do you expect to build better integration to other infrastructure components?

ManageIQ Community to Date

● Source code, community builds released June 19● Discussion site, talk.manageiq.org, also live

● ManageIQ developed transparently and in the open● Open for business with 9 partners: CiRBA, VMTurbo,

BBVA, Gandi.net, AutoTrader Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cloudsoft, Chef, ICE Systems

● First GA release, Anand, in late August

Community Structure● Both Engineer and User Community

● Users, ISVs/IHVs, System Integrators

EngineeringCommunity

UserCommunity

Innovation Differentiation

Community Resources

ManageIQ

Small PrivateCompanyResource

Constrained

Red HatPost Acquisition

Large PublicCompany

Manageiq.orgGlobal Community of

Users & Devs

Open Source Dev Strategy

One Community

Many Projects

Platform Instrumentation

Cloud Governance

Finan.Mgmt

Service Management

DataManagement

Resource Management

Cloud Automation

Architecture/Taxonomy

It's All About the Ecosystem

Partner Goals● Enable upstream innovation

● Increase reach and adoption

– Make ManageIQ >>> Red Hat● Create network effect, build center of gravity

● Enable “freedom to fail”

The Freedom to Fail

Commercial Product

Open SourceCommunity

● How open source communities are often done

The Freedom to Fail

Open Source Community

Commercial

Product

● A better way:

Give more leeway to upstream development

Where Partners Fit

Open Source Community

User Enablement

Developer Engagement

Evangelism

Projects &Products

Larger Mindshare

MoreExperts

Partner Diversity● No money; contributions in kind

– User support, docs, code, marketing

● Need diversity of contributors– ISVs contribute projects

– Users contribute support and docs

– Projects contribute API integration

Partner Contributions

Many Projects

Contributed Content

● Adjunct projects● Hydra, jellyfish, et al.

● Core contributions● Policy engine● State machines● Automate● Scripts

Governance● Partners to engage in awareness-building

and setting community policy

– Community board● Engineering governed by code committers

Governance Proposal

ManageIQ Board Engineering

● Technology roadmap● Code commits● Commit process● Committer nomination and

approval● Blueprints process

● Marketing● Building awareness● Trademark governance● Community strategy● Partner resource

management

Tools and Workflow

Current Web Site● Repo at github.com/manageiq/manageiq.org

– Pull requests accepted!– “Edit this page on GitHub”

– Add blog post with pull requests● Plus discussion/bulletin board

– Talk.manageiq.org

Current Documentation● User content at http://manageiq.org/documentation/

● “Top tasks” after install

– http://manageiq.org/documentation/top-tasks/● Developer Docs

– http://manageiq.org/documentation/development/

Documentation Workflow● Same as web site

● To add a document:

– Copy another document to new markdown file

– Issue pull request for new formatted doc

Introducing: the Cloud Depot

● Self-service portal for finding, downloading content for extending ManageIQ– Scripts, policies, automation, orchestration

● Enable community to contribute expertise in the form of reusable components

The ManageIQ Cloud Depot

● What it could look like

Categories

Automation Orchestration

Policy engine Monitoring

Provider plugins Security

Sample Depot Page

Shellshock Vulnerability

Fancy finding out really quickly if your [linux boxes] are patched correctly? Even if they are turned off right now? Wow that is clever not even the virtual infrastructure players can do that…I know…its cool. Here it is...

● Link to script download

Contribute to the Cloud Depot

● Fork depot repository on GitHub (TBD)● Issue pull request against depot repo● We will evaluate content for publication

– Accept/reject● We will manually add to index

Cloud Depot Roadmap● Looking at technology solutions

– Chef's supermarket– Requires development time and

modification

Web Site Improvements● Current web site was good for launch,

but...– Front page very static

– Not all site elements easily navigable

– Need more documentation

Web Site Next Steps● Working on next design

– Reworking navigation

– Add more options “above the fold”

– Make site activity more visible/accessible

– Look for discussion on talk.manageiq.org

Documentation Sources● Old, converted docs● New docs from docs team● Community

– Starts on talk.m.o– Migrates to manageiq.org/blog/– Integrated into /docs/

Conclusions

Community Outreach● Branching out – more partners, diversity

– Cloud service providers● Provider plugin arch

● Build largest cloud ecosystem in the world● Utilize community board to expand